| COINTELPRO was the FBI's secret program to undermine the popular upsurge which swept the country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for "Counterintelligence Program," the targets were not enemy spies. The FBI set out to eliminate "radical" political opposition inside the US. When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage constitutionally - protected political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to a domestic version of the covert action for which the CIA has become infamous throughout the world. |
The COINTELPRO Papers:
Documents from the FBI's
Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
by Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall
[excerpted from Paul Wolf's web site HERE]Chapter 1- UNDERSTANDING DELETIONS
Chapter 7 - COINTELPRO - AIMThe Federal Bureau of Intimidation by Howard ZinnChapter 8 - Conclusion: COINTELPRO Lives On
The Covert War Against Native Americans by Ward ChurchillLeonard Peltier * Dennis Banks * Anna Mae Aquash * Myrtle Poor Bear * John Trudell
Mike Rivero's COINTELPRO pageSecret No More use the Freedom of Information Act to conduct your own FBI investigations
Excerpted
from the COINTELPRO webpage created
by Paul Wolf
A very extensive site on covert activities in the
US and other places by both the FBI and CIA..highly recommended reading.